Exploring Seasonal Transitions through Mark Making in the Den Room, Three-year-old class

Since the start of the school year, the children of the Den Room observed and discussed the changing outdoors. In early Fall, they noticed that the leaves on the trees were in the process of changing colors. The class talked about how the leaves changed color due to lack of sunlight and can transform into a new color.

“It’s Fall and the leaves change color, “ observed Mitch. “Brown means they are dead,” he added. The children were invited into the Studio with Miss Kristi to create collaborative paintings using water colors, chalk and woodies. The children first drew lines representing the veins of the leaves and then added colors to the paper.

“The leaves fall because the wind blowed it off,” said Christian. “The leaves are the tree’s hair.” William commented, “In the Fall, we get a haircut and our hair will fall just like the leaves.”

“When a tree loses all its leaves it feels sad because it doesn’t have any,” said Annie K. The class continued to work with Miss Kristi in the Studio to create late Fall canvases with deeper Fall colors and Winter canvases of bare trees in blues, grays and black. It’s clear in the work, through mark-making and their words, the children make observations and form theories on how and why seasonal transitions happen. We can’t wait to see what the children notice in the Spring!

Visiting Day 2023

VISITING DAY 2023